Any old farts good at this game?
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I'm 65 and play it. I started out with strat-o-matic baseball in the 70's and just two years ago decided to play on a Playstation. I did play in the early 200's with High heat, Triple Play but once it moved away from the PC I stopped all gaming until 2 years ago.
Now, I am excited about the NCAA football game, and hopefully next year a Nascar game that can be as good as N2003 from Sierra/Papyrus.
I play franchise mode and RTTS mode. I finally got to a 99 in my RTTS, as a 1B with the Astros that drafted me in the 5th round.
In franchise mode I am playing the the Baltimore Orioles and neck and neck with the Yankees for the division lead with a little over a month to go in the season. I will make the playoffs but I do not know if I will have to go in as a wild card team.
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50 years old here and one thing that helped me out was 1.5 x magnification reading glasses (easier to see the type of pitch coming out of the pitchers hand immediately at release) and those foam controller rings. A colleague of mine uses 2.0 x magnification reading glasses but that's a bit too much zoom for me lol.
Costco sells the reading glases for roughly $20, amazon probably cheaper. -
Dollar General has them for $2.
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I’m 51 and have played very casually since the first show game. My favorite is online rated and really tired of quitters. Usually when I’m up by 2-3 runs they disconnect. The only way I get a full game in is if I lose or hit a walk off home run lol. I try to play SIM and mix up the pitches while trying to hit the black and corners. I think I have a decent eye for detecting balls and strikes. There is no way I can play zone im too slow to move the cursor and hit at the same time lol but I’ll play directional and timed and I see acceptable results.
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I'm 68 years old and have been playing since 2014. I never played a video game in my life because I was busy coaching college football. I had a young son who loved video games and I wanted to spend more time with him. I love baseball so we purchased MLB the show 14 and soon I was playing without him. I've bought the game every year since and now that I'm retired I have improved a great deal. For several years I played online DD and faired very well , winning about 70 percent of my games. I got very frustrated with the mentality of the online fan so I only play offline franchise. I play hall of fame hitting and legend pitching and beat the breaks off the CPU. I hit over 300 and pitch with an era around 3.00. I have learned how to overcome some of my reactionary and visual deficiencies that come with age by using my dual sence remote (200 bucks worth) and playing with a monitor. I play well over 350-400 games a year and generally win the World Series with the San Francisco Giants. This next year I'm giving legend hitting a whirl because my BA has been too high for the last 2 years.
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I’m 72 and I gave up on the game two years ago. I got tired of being beaten after I’d really played hard. It also just wasn’t worth it to me that if I wanted a really good team, I had to buy it because I wasn’t good enough to get the really top level cards by playing a game I had so much trouble winning. I missed it at first, but not anymore.
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55 here
I enjoy playing DD with a team rated around 85.
I like playing with not perfect types vs the cpu on legend difficulty.Online is too much cheese and lag on my big tv.
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I dont think anybody actuality plays this game now. You need a slide rule and a part time accountant to figure if so anso can play which afinity you in what boost who got , who a glitcgh and wo power charged . Click your heels 3 times and wisper " theres no place like Madden. You dont play this game no more you calculate it . Its MLB the Algebra Show. Who got time to practice unimportant stufff like swings and pitches
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